1967 Silver Apples becomes one of the first groups to employ electronic music techniques extensively within a rock idiom, and their minimalistic style, with its pulsing, driving beat and frequently discordant modality, anticipated not only the experimental electronic music and krautrock of the 1970s but also underground dance music and indie rock of the 1990s.

early 1980's

Chicago house is born

1986 Run-D.M.C. covers "Walk This Way" by Aerosmith and the concept of the disc jockey as a band member and artist is known worldwide

1968 KUCI 88.9FM begins as a pirate radio station & in 1969 becomes legal and funded by UCI (University of California, Irvine)

1969 Terry Riley releases "A Rainbow in Curved Air"

1970s KDAY Radio is born in L.A. and later becomes the innovation gateway for Hip-Hop, R&B, and Dance Music influencing countless people. It was the first station in the world to play Hip-Hop around the clock.

1981 Alex Cima begins teaching Music Technology at Fullerton College and becomes a prominent influence to many local musicians and releases his own electronic music as well.

~1980

Brothers Vangelis and Vidal Vargas are exposed to artists such as Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk by their father and later become Raíz & founders of Droid Behavior with Drumcell.

? Dr. Richard Boulanger completes his Ph.D. at the University of California, San Diego (Center for Music Experiment’s Computer Audio Research Lab, Bell Labs, CCRMA, the MIT Media Lab, Interval Research, and IBM and worked closely for many years with Max Mathews and Barry Vercoe)

? Anthem / VJ 2112 brings Performance Art on the Drumset to High-End Venues in California and other states

1985

John McEnary creates the, "Computers in Music" class at Orange Coast College and is later joined by Dana Wheaton in 1991. Dennis Anderson and Eric Dalhberg join them later as well.

DJ Pat D begins DJ'ing and gets his first S. California gig at the After 8 dance club in Norco and a few years later Traffic Jam, 8:00 Hott Mixx and The Friday & Saturday Night Hott Mixx on 99.1 KGGI FM

? Magic Wednesdays begins (the only major rave-oriented Hollywood club in the 90's)

Dean Paul begins DJ'ing in L.A.

Steve Loria creates Bang The Drum (event)

Hip-hop turntablist, DJ AERO becomes a part the L.A. rave scene and years later becomes Tommy Lee's DJ'ing partner in Electro Mayhem and has worked with Snoop Dogg, Everlast, Korn, and Dilated Peoples. He has now also joined Lee, Deadmau5, and Steve Duda in "WTF?"

Destructo (Gary Richards) begins DJ'ing and producing undergrounds in L.A. & later becomes the A&R for electronic music at Def American Recordings with Lords of Acid, Messiah, David Holmes, Basement Jaxx, Dub Pistols, God Lives Underwater and founding 1500 Records and Nitrus Records

Brian Scroggins begins producing techno and later as P.O.P. with Daniel Somboonsiri. He later dies from cancer in 2008

dj404 begins DJ'ing but later dies of cancer in 2009

? Tony Largo begins DJ'ing

? Taylor is the resident house DJ at Metropolis in Irvine. A lot of worldwide DJ's play there because of him.

1991- ~1997 Don Pits creates the Dirt Line to help connect people to the hottest events

1991 - 1992 - KDLDMARS-FM is born with Swedish Egil and Freddy Snakeskin

Tom Erbe creates SoundHack, one of the first shareware electronic music softwares extreme (time stretching and sound file convolution) used by Richard D. James, Trent Reznor, and for sound effects in The Matrix

? DJ Amanda Jones begins DJ'ing in Los Angeles & later co-created Club Suicide, the city’s official Suicide Girls nightspot, as well as the innovative Malediction Society, the first Steampunk dance night in Los Angeles

Conscious Groove Events is created by Markus D. Manley (ends December 2000)

Dntel (Jimmy Tamborello) releases "(This is) The Dream of Evan and Chan" featuring the vocals and lyrics of Ben Gibbard who will both release "Give Up" in 2003 as The Postal Service.

2002

Eric - Uncle E - Dalhberg, multi-talented musician, teacher, previous music supervisor, and all-around-super-cool guy founded JRRshop.com, the best music store in Orange County. Its name originates from a record label he started in college named, "Just Roots Records."

The OC Music Awards include...? showing an increased interest in electronic music.

2003

Adymus (John Rock) begins producing in Anaheim and then begins DJ'ing in 2006

John McEnary passes away (1952-2003) (Creator of the, "Computers in Music" class, performer of classical and jazz guitar, specialist in acoustic, electrical and synthesized guitars, Orange Coast College music professor)

Listeners are outraged after KDL, the party station, ceased to exist. For a month the station ran with no commercials or DJs and featured only the voices of listeners from phone messages left on the request line voice mail. Many of the phone messages were angry listeners yelling "You guys suck!" and "What happened to KDL the party station!"

Underground Sound Productions is created by DJ Soda (Dakota) in Santa Cruz

Tom Erbe becomes the first person after John Cage to perform "Williams Mix," his pioneering tape music piece composed in 1952 with one of the performances being featured on Clipping's second album "Clppng"

Within each genre, a collective identity is formed to varying degrees, some more prominent than others. Each group is universally founded in technological and human discovery with genres acting only as a gateway to unfolding similarities and differences but never a means of division.